Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...
Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...
At approximately 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexican desert. It was bright, hot, and loud. Scientists and military personnel crouched nearby in ...
As almost all video games are mostly concerned with fiction, it's very rare to see them referenced in any non-commercial and non-artistic context. However, a new exhibition in the US-American National ...
Hiroshima, Japan: Sunday, Aug. 6, 1945, 8:15 am. A 12-year-old girl was walking to her seijinshiki ceremony, a traditional Japanese rite of passage, dressed in her first kimono. In a millisecond, the ...
Lucy Benavidez Garwood was 13 years old when the Trinity atomic bomb test was detonated at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, 50 miles from her home in Tularosa, on July 16, 1945. A ...
The National Atomic Testing Museum (NATM) in Las Vegas has opened a Fallout-flavoured display featuring some of the IP’s most recognizable items. The new exhibit invites fans to wander the wasteland ...
Imagine a 150-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in the city closest to you. Do you know how the city, its surrounding region, and its inhabitants would be affected? If you can't think of much more than "a ...
The governor's mansion has a nuclear fallout shelter built in the 1960s that has never been used. But Gov. DeSantis once ...